Suspender-hook.



PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

' J. G. McRAE.

SUSPENDER HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED 111:0. 10, 1003.

N0 MODEL.

6 lg cgfor @AlIorgcys Patented November 15, 1904.

UNITED STATEsPATENT OFFICE.

JOHN CHISM MoRAE, OF HENDERSON, MISSISSIPPI.

SUSPENDER-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,013, dated November 15, 1904.

Application filed December 10. 1903. Serial No. 184,639. (Nomo'deL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN CHIsM MoRAn, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Henderson, in the county of Wayne andState of Mississippi, have inventeda new and useful Suspender-Hook, of which the followingis a specification. I This invention relates to attachments to garments for the suspension of other garments therefrom,and is designed more particularly for use between suspenders and similar supporting means and trousers and similar garments, and has for its object to produce a simple, cheaplyrconstructed. and easily-applied device of this character which may be attached to the garment in place of ordinary buttons; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claim.

The improved device may be attached to any form or kind of garment and be employed for any purpose to which it is adapted, and I do not, therefore, desire to be limited in any manner in its use or application and reserve the rightto its use for all purposes and in all localities to which it is adapted.

For the purpose of illustration the device is shown applied to the waistband of a pair of trousers, to which it is more particularly applicable.

In the drawings thus employed, and in which corresponding parts are designated by like denoting characters, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device applied. Fig.2

is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, enlarged, of the improved device detached. Fig. 4 is a view of the blank from which the frame of the device is struck up and also of one of the double-pointed pins detached.

The improved device comprises a frame or plate 10, which constitutes the body portion, and has at one end a centrally arranged tongue bent'to form a hook 11, disposed longitudinally of the front side of the plate, and a pair of spaced tongues bent to form guards 12 and 13, extending longitudinally of the rear side of the plate, and at its opposite end a sleeve 14. for supporting a double-pronged pin 15, the bend of which is mounted within the sleeve and its two-pointed ends 16 disposed to be engaged by the guards 12 and 13. The pin member will be firmly clamped in the sleeve 14 and will possess suflicient resiliency to cause the points 16 to hold with considerable force in the guards 12 13 and resist accidental displacement. Extending from the plate 10 adjacent to the guards 12 13 are pointed spurs 17 18, which project toward the guards and extend at right angles to the outer face of the plate. By this simple arrangement a strong simply-constructed combined pin and suspension-hook is produced which may be quickly attached and securely fastened to the waistband of a pair of trousers or other similar garment,'as at 19, in position for its hook 11 to be engaged by the loop of a pair of suspenders or other similar supporters, as at 20.

When applied, the pressure of the resilient pin member firmly compresses the fabric of the waistband upon the spurs 17 18 and impales the fabric thereon, which thereby materially assists in supporting the device upon the garment and effectually prevents lateral movement.

The device may be' very quickly attached and detached and may be employed instead of ordinary buttons and may also be quickly adjusted to any desired position upon the garment.

When used to connectsuspenders and similar supporters to trousers and the like, the

device will preferably be set at an angle corresponding to the angle or draft of the suspender, so that the pull upon the book 11 will be in direct longitudinal alinement with the plate, and thus prevent undue lateral strains which might otherwise fracture or bend the hook.

The plate portion 10 and'the tongues 11,12, and 13, spurs 17 18, and sleeve 14 will preferably be struck up from a single piece of sheet metal, as shown in Fig. 4, of sufiicient gage to enable them to withstand the strains to which they will be subjected and the edges of the portions which come in contact with the fabrics to which they are attached rounded or curved to prevent undue abrasion thereof.

The devices may be constructed in various sizes for the various styles and sizes of garing spurs adjacent to the crest of the hook and to the guards and projecting at right angles to the plane of the body portion, and a double-pronged pin having its bend secured in the sleeve and its points disposed to be engaged by the guards and to project past the spurs,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN CHISM MGRAE.

Witnesses:

JAMEs (J. GREEN, JosEri-i R. GREEN. 

